School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

John Crome

Born: 1768, UK, England, Norwich   Died: 1821, Norwich

Painter and printmaker. Also known as 'Old Crome'. Apprenticed to a signwriter, 1783-90. He was a founder member of the Norwich Society of Artists and was associated with the 'Norwich School'. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and taught as a drawing master. Influenced by artists such as Ruisdael, Hobbema, Gainsborough and Wilson, he painted landscapes of East Anglia, usually in watercolour. His eldest son John Berney Crome (1794-1842) was also a painter

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

[Landscape with tree and cattle] OP28 Oil Paintings

[Wooded landscape with figures] OP27 Oil Paintings

A Windmill PR46 Prints

Composition PR356 Prints




 
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